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9 votes
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DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes service is now available to everyone
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Dear US-Americans of Tildes, is West Virginia really that bad?
I am a Russian and recently I started to really like the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”. I searched for images of things mentioned in the song, like Blue Ridge mountains and Shenandoah river,...
I am a Russian and recently I started to really like the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”. I searched for images of things mentioned in the song, like Blue Ridge mountains and Shenandoah river, and they do look pretty. Definitely somewhere I would like to hike. I've also heard that the local BBQ is good, which is relevant to my interests.
At the same time, almost every time I see West Virginia mentioned on e.g. Reddit, there is always someone pointing out that WV is, for lack of a better term, a shithole. I've seen that occurring several times on several different subreddits. What is up with that? Is that just a thing where the people from one US state always feel the need to throw crap at other states? Are there economical reasons? Is it too conservative/racist/what-have-you?
Just in case, I am not trying to start something, I am genuinely curious, how can one place be called “almost heaven” by one group of people and at the same called a “shithole” by another.
35 votes -
Report details an assault on science at the Department of the Interior
8 votes -
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Data Collection
15 votes -
DJ Marcelle - Muslimgauze Mix II (8th March 2018)
3 votes -
Google Fusion Tables to be shut down on December 3, 2019
4 votes -
How the Dreamcast's copy protection was defeated
14 votes -
Disappearing movies and games: How safe is your digital collection?
33 votes -
100 greatest Bruce Springsteen songs of all time
3 votes -
at caf é [lofi / jazz hip hop mix]
7 votes -
Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
9 votes -
We're no longer in smartphone plateau. We're in the smartphone decline
30 votes -
SIGIL by John Romero: A new episode for the original 1993 DOOM, coming in February 2019
9 votes -
Motorcyclist wins $65,000 settlement after King County Sheriff's Deputy pulls gun on him
5 votes -
AFX - Medievil Rave Mk2 [pre plague mix] (2015)
9 votes -
All the criminal charges to emerge so far from Robert Mueller's investigation
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Has anyone been playing Stellaris since Le Guin dropped?
Just wondering what peoples' thoughts are on the most recent total overhaul of the game. I haven't bought the megacorp DLC yet, but I did play a multiplayer game with a friend that did, and I was...
Just wondering what peoples' thoughts are on the most recent total overhaul of the game. I haven't bought the megacorp DLC yet, but I did play a multiplayer game with a friend that did, and I was pretty impressed. Much as I detest tedious micro, the new planet management system is light years ahead of the old one, and represents a much more realistic pace for colony development- no more outpopulating and outdeveloping your homeworld in twenty years. The main issues I've seen so far are poor balancing between raw materials, market balance, and finished goods, and AI. Since nearly all finished goods require minerals exclusively as an input, you get constant mineral deficits and a market that places more value on minerals than the goods made from them.
As for the market, the demand/pricing mechanism is poorly implemented, so you can exploit it for infinite money. Say a good costs 1EC/ea, you put in a bulk purchase order for 10,000 units. You pay 1EC for each of them, but after the order the sell price is boosted to 2EC. You can then immediately dump everything you just bought, selling each for 2EC. They could (and probably will) fix this by considering the price of each unit individually based on whatever formula they use for calculating market demand.
Finally, the AI completely shits the bed with the new administrative cap mechanic, and ends up decades behind any competently managed player empire in both economy and technology. But then I suppose poor AI is nothing new for Stellaris.
Issues aside though, I feel like with this patch, Stellaris has finally taken its place as a worthy successor to the classic Master of Orion 2.
9 votes -
Tumblr's displaced porn bloggers test their new platforms
21 votes -
Your apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secret
23 votes -
Paper promises: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at seventy
9 votes -
Unforeseen consequences: A Half-Life documentary
11 votes -
China ruling could ban some Apple iPhones sales amid Qualcomm fight (affects 6S through X)
7 votes -
Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2018 edition
11 votes -
In China, a school trains boys to be ‘real men’
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What do you value in a video game?
For me, I value gameplay and originality. For example, let's take Splatoon. It gets a lot of hate because it has "kiddy" graphics. But I like it. It's gameplay is great. It's a really fun shooter,...
For me, I value gameplay and originality. For example, let's take Splatoon. It gets a lot of hate because it has "kiddy" graphics. But I like it. It's gameplay is great. It's a really fun shooter, and I don't care if it has cartoonish graphics. As far as originality, it has amazing new ideas, such as the ability to swim through ink laid down by your weapon. What do you all value in a game?
18 votes -
How to learn Kubernetes with Minikube
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Topics and comments can now be bookmarked (aka "saved")
As mentioned last week, I've now deployed the bookmarking functionality that was primarily implemented as an open-source contribution by @what. There's not much to say about it, it should be...
As mentioned last week, I've now deployed the bookmarking functionality that was primarily implemented as an open-source contribution by @what.
There's not much to say about it, it should be pretty straightforward: there are "Bookmark" buttons on both comments and topics, and you can view your bookmarked posts through the Bookmarks page, which is linked through your user page's sidebar. I'm planning to add the ability to search your bookmarks eventually, but I don't think that'll be urgent for a while until people start building up a pretty large list of bookmarked items.
Please let me know if you notice any issues with it, and thanks again to @what for the contribution!
85 votes -
Google+ shutdown speeds up, new privacy bug affected 52.5 million users
16 votes -
Prime Minister Theresa May calls off MPs' vote on her Brexit deal
12 votes -
Faure - Claire de Lune; vocal by Regin Crespin
6 votes -
Economic Update: The Great American Purge
6 votes -
Gabriel Fauré - Sicilienne, for cello & piano, Op. 78
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Torn - web-based old-school style game
7 votes -
'We’re going to kill you': Nicaragua's brutal crackdown on press freedom
9 votes -
A brief history of US dirty wars in Central America that set the stage for the refugee crisis
4 votes -
South Korean law to punish "boosters" passes in the National Assembly
6 votes -
Video Game Word Vomit Thread
Hey! Despite the seemingly negative name, I want to make this thread so anyone can say pretty much whatever you want about the games you've been playing! Whether it's a review, a brief paragraph...
Hey! Despite the seemingly negative name, I want to make this thread so anyone can say pretty much whatever you want about the games you've been playing! Whether it's a review, a brief paragraph or two of thoughts, recommendations, or frustrations, let's try to commiserate or proliferate discussion about what we've been playing!
14 votes -
The tiny country of Niue has taken one of Sweden's biggest internet organisations to court, claiming its internet domain name was taken over without consent.
11 votes -
The state of web browsers - 2019 edition
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Apple Watch's ECG feature is already proving its worth
6 votes -
Chinese scientist who used CRISPR on human babies gone missing
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Anyone using the BRAVE web browser? Thoughts? Experiences?
I was reading about it here: https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-matures-with-move-to-chromium-foundation/ First I heard of it and was curious if anyone has tried it. I love the idea of...
I was reading about it here:
https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-matures-with-move-to-chromium-foundation/
First I heard of it and was curious if anyone has tried it. I love the idea of blocking ads and trackers by default.
19 votes -
Eric Whitacre, Robert Frost - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (Sleep) (2010)
4 votes -
An analysis of board games: Part II - Complexity bias in BGG
6 votes -
Attention Wars: Exploring the psychology, design and impact of tech and social media (Youtube series from BrainCraft)
6 votes -
Climate change: COP24 fails to adopt key scientific report
7 votes -
Stop buying crap, and companies will stop making crap
30 votes -
Testers needed for Nextcloud Social - Federating with ActivityPub and Diaspora* social networks
7 votes -
X-mas rush : a nice programming challenge going on right now. Only 7 days left!
6 votes